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Hi,

I'm thinking of moving to rsyslog from metalog(mainly because metalog seems to be unmainatend and has no network logging support).

But the one feature of metalog I really like is how it logs:

/var/log/$DIRECTORY/current
for the current log file and then it autorotates based on filesize and/or duration(i.e. after 24h) into
/var/log/$DIRECTORY/log-$DATE

Is that possible with rsyslog?

Thanks...

• Custom written rsyslog.conf?
• Maintenance Contract?
• Installation support?

Hmmm... that's not directly possible. I've cooking something along these lines, but, unfortunately, this is not ready yet. If you don't need a dynamic part inside the file name, you can use outchannels:

http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-log_rotation_fix_size.html

Rainer

Yeah saw that... I guess it should work... The only dynamic part I would need is for a syslog server to split stuff per hosts...

If it is just a couple of hosts, you could go away with the bsd-style host blocks:

+host1
*.* ...

+host2
.
.
.

Rainer

Yeah not that many... 2 always ons(and maybe some xen domUs in a while) and a few here and there... But also thinking this for work but the numbers don't change much...

Hmm how about having a symlink latest to current? Or would still out channels be required?